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Titivate

//ˈtɪt.ɪ.veɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make small improvements or alterations to (one's appearance etc.); to add some finishing touches to, to spruce up or touch up. transitive

    "Had she spent the best part of a day in titivating herself in order that she might sit plunged in darkness, with nothing but her feet and her nose revealed?"

  2. 2
    make neat, smart, or trim wordnet

Etymology

A modification of the earlier spelling tidivate, perhaps based on tidy + -vate, on the pattern of words such as cultivate and renovate.

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